Lot 235: DOMENICO CAMPAGNOLA

PADUA 1484 - 1550 (?) THE FLAGELLATION Pen and brown ink over black chalk 220 by 378 mm

Newcastle, 1964, no. 2 (as Circle of Campagnola); Newcastle, 1974, no. 3, reproduced pl. V (as Circle of Campagnola); London, 1975, no. 3 (as Circle of Campagnola); Newcastle, 1982, no. 3, reproduced pl. 1A (as Attributed to Campagnola)

Dr. John Anthony Cramer, Oxford, his sale 1847 (according to label from old mount); with Rich, London, from whom purchased, circa 1956

Tobias Nickel, who was working on a catalogue of Campagnola drawings, wrote to Ralph Holland in 2002, remarking that this drawing fits with a group of religious subjects, similar in style, composition and handling, which seemed to him to date from the 1540s. Ralph Holland had been cautious in his attribution of the drawing, but gradually became more convinced that it was autograph. He compared it with a drawing of a Fête champêtre in the Albertina.1 1. Disegni veneti dell'Albertina di Vienna, exhib. cat., Venice, Fondazione Cini, 1961, p. 25, no. 18, reproduced